Thanks for the new thread! I just posted a reply on the old one but then found more information about Smithfield Foods that might be of interest. US companies were warned that China could nationalize and take over any plants they built in China for any reason, but of course that didn’t stop them because they were saving so much money with cheap Chinese labor. Now with the Chicoms controling a big piece of our food supply and disrupting pork production, maybe that’s something we should consider. Consider it “partial reparations for COVID-19 losses”:
Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a meat-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia, in the United States, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of WH Group of China. Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and pork producer in the world. In addition to owning over 500 farms in the US, Smithfield contracts with another 2,000 independent farms around the country to grow Smithfield’s pigs. Outside the US, the company has facilities in Mexico, Poland, Romania, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Globally the company employed 50,200 in 2016 and reported an annual revenue of $14 billion. Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was said in 2000 to be the world’s largest, processing 32,000 pigs a day.
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That’s a lot of American food and jobs under control of the CCP.
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Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.[11] The acquisition of Smithfield’s 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas owners of American farmland.
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a drop in the bucket of what they have cost us.
Buy Hatfield. Patriots.
From Wiki....Hatfield Quality Meats is primarily a pork meat packing company based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. It produces over 1,200 different fresh and manufactured pork products. Hatfield’s distribution is primarily on the East Coast of the United States, as well as some international markets. Their hot dogs are sold at Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Nationals baseball home games.
At the time the Chinese took over Smithfield (maybe 12-15 years ago), the cardiothoracic surgical community was very concerned about the US supply of porcine heparin falling under control of a foreign entity. At present, heparin (porcine) is often on backorder. Nationally, I’m not sure if other suppliers, such as Hatfield, have been able to keep up with demand for sourcing.